Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Graham, Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Capt., R.A.M.C.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935, very fine and better (7) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Roland Harris Graham was born in Cambridge on 3 June 1890. Receiving his medical training at Trinity College, Dublin, he gained the M.B., B.Ch. B.A.O. and L.M. Rotunda, 1915. Commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. Special Reserve in August 1914, he was mobilized on 1 October 1915. Promoted to Captain in April 1916 he gained a Regular Army Commission at that rank in July 1919. Promoted to Major in October 1927, he held the rank of Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel from February 1940 and Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, May 1940-September 1941. He was placed on Retired Pay with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 8 January 1947. Graham served in India, 1916-18; East Persia, 1918-21; Constantinople, 1922-23 and India, 1925-29 and 1931-35. With the B.E.F. in France, 1939-40, he was C.O. of the 2nd Casualty Clearing Station February-September 1940.